For Sammy Tbeile ’18, computer engineering is all about the art of the science.

“Some people have this really strange misconception that engineering isn’t a creative field just because it’s heavily based in math and science,” Tbeile said. “But it takes an incredible amount of creativity to develop solutions to complex engineering problems, and you have a huge amount of freedom to become creative with your particular solution.”

Columbia Engineering researchers have, for the first time, harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit from adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of life.